Trademarks

A trademark is a word, name, symbol, or device that is used in trade with goods to indicate the source of the goods and to distinguish them from the goods of others. A servicemark is the same as a trademark except that it identifies and distinguishes the source of a service rather than a product. The terms "trademark" and "mark" are commonly used to refer to both trademarks and servicemarks. Trademark rights may be used to prevent others from using a confusingly similar mark, but not to prevent others from making the same goods or from selling the same goods or services under a clearly different mark. Trademarks which are used in interstate or foreign commerce may be registered with the USPTO.

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The on-sale bar prevents an inventor from acquiring patent protection if the application is filed more than one year from the date of sale, use, or offer for sale of the invention in the United States. Read more >

Prior art is any relevant knowledge existing or publicly available before the date of invention or more than one year before the patent application filing date. Read more >